Word: heals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This premillennial Woodstock got started 12 years ago when an unknown artist, Larry Harvey, built a wooden statue on a foggy beach near San Francisco and then set it on fire. For Harvey it was a catharsis to heal a broken relationship. For his friends it was a soul-energizing blast, and Harvey decided it should be an annual ritual. He cast a single brilliant rule: no spectators. What he wanted, he said, was to create "a Disneyland in reverse." Everyone had to be a participant and march in the electric-light parade...
That was in March 1993, and Downs has since begun to heal financially and emotionally, in part by giving warning lectures to senior audiences. Other victims have been less fortunate. Some have plunged into such despair that they have lost their will to live. "We have had people tell us they were close to suicide," says Susan Somers, an assistant attorney general in New York State...
DOCTORS Bring back Marcus Welby. A.M.A. endorses a line of medical products. Physicians, heal thyselves...
...political-action committees. PACs, which bundle money from people of similar special interests, engender candidates with narrow agendas that contribute to legislative gridlock. We should just get rid of PACs altogether. It will heal a lot of electoral ulcers and still permit individuals who care about issues to contribute on their...
...most shocking racist incidents of the civil rights movement, the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which killed four children. "It's a crime that has gone unsolved except one local conviction and it remains a sore part of American history that we would like to heal," said Joseph Lewis, FBI special agent in charge in Birmingham. "We feel we have an opportunity to do so this time and we want to take one last shot at it." Since the 1963 attack, only one person, Ku Klux Klansman Robert Edward Chambliss, has been convicted. The FBI believes...